Well, in the states, people still consider 18-24 or so as a kid for the most part. I look anywhere from that age range. On a good day, when I'm all
smiles and shaved, I probably look 18 or 19. Did you once mention that you're Asperger's, too? We usually look a bit younger. I recently read an
article which goes into some detail about a theory that Asperger's is the result of hybridizaiton between Neanderthal and modern man. It seems that a
lot of the oddities of eccentrics may be because of the remnants of this lost species in our blood.

I truly hope you're correct about the population stabilizing as a result of going back to a community-based, localized lifestyle. It would most
likely bring the standard of living way up from a spiritual perspective, and this would most likely lead to a stabilized, and perhaps decline in
population.

It's not the actual possibility of disaster which bothers me, it's the inability of mankind to
address the issue as it is, and save ourselves from possible extinction or at least a highly dystopian future.

I think it's actually just a little deeper than that. The real reason seems to be instinctual. When times are bad, people's stress levels rise and I
think this triggers hormones to go out of whack in order to have enough kids so that some will actually make it through childhood. The lower in
socio-economic status, the larger the families.

I'm same way with buying lighters. People card me all the time, and if it's my first time going into a particular bar, the staff will confront me
like a bunch of bouncers and demand I show ID !! I swear it takes them a good 10-15 seconds before giving me back the card each time.

Nobody knows? What makes you think that? How did that happen? This wasn't suppose to post in this thread. Of course there's a Big Fooking Problem! I
will have to talk to my evil twin about his sleep walking.

I've actually been in lurk mode due to work load. Suffice to say that suddenly isn't going to well because they have no money for my paycheck
today.

As for the GOM spill, I am not saying it's going to match PTE, but it will certainly contribute to the Holocene extinction. Unity is right about the
attitude of people on the planet, we are for the most part zombified.

The biggest problem with the GOM is all the disinformation and BP trying to censor the news, not that I want to over-exaggerate the problem, however I
really want to know the facts as to what we are up against.

The speculation is all over the map, from a total fissure opened up, to a much larger oil reserve then what BP first claimed. What a mess of
information.

Change has to start with the individual, I know my wife and I stopped eating fish and sushi last year due to the hard reality of what is happening to
the Ocean with mass consumption of fish. It seems more and more, the Ocean is being murdered and massacred by our greed.

Hard to imagine something so big and vast being so vulnerable to just one of Earths dominant species.

I looked up briefly this possibility yesterday when it was mentioned in another thread. I believe the theory involving methane hydrates is called the
Clathrate gun hypothesis:

The clathrate gun hypothesis is the popular name given to the hypothesis that rises in sea temperatures (and/or falls in sea level) can trigger
the sudden release of methane from methane clathrate compounds buried in seabeds and permafrost which, because the methane itself is a powerful
greenhouse gas, leads to further temperature rise and further methane clathrate destabilization – in effect initiating a runaway process as
irreversible, once started, as the firing of a gun. Source

I would include some external material from the source, but they do not allow any part of the article to be redistributed. I'm not sure what to make
of any of this information: I'm just passing it along.

As the climate gets warmer it make sense that surface methane is released from swamps and forest fires and so on. Methane clathrate from the ocean is
only stable within a certain temperature range, the oceans warm up much slower then the surface and the pressure can even make the melting temp. a
little higher. I don't know.

If this article is true then we are in for the worst, I think. I mean if it didn't happen during the times we thought it did... It happens now...
I'm going to hold my breath for a while...

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